"The elite kills the people" – Francia Márquez Mina (*01.12.1981) Colombia’s first Black vice president is being part of a big change in Latin American politics. She spreads hope and ambition for minorities who feel the motivation to bring changes
in this patriarchal world. ❤️🔥
Toni Morrison (18.02.1931-5.08.2019) was an American writer and professor.
She started to write her first novel "The Bluest Eye" with 36.
She recalls in an interview that her deepest passion was at first reading and then finding herself writing the book she was longing to read, a story about "someone like her". Morrison had found a tool to free herself from the white gaze. 🌸🌸🌸
Agnès Varda (30.05.1928-28.03.2019) was a inspiring French film director. "I am a woman working with her intuition..."
She dedicated her life to document and comment on women's issues and rights.
Find one of her last interviews at the Gentlewoman magazine The Gentlewoman ✨
"I have a dream..." Martin Luther King Junior (15.01.1929 - 4.4.1968) American pastor and politician, had a dream to free black Americans. He risked his life to change a world full of inequality and full of fear of the unknown.
Thoughts go out to Ukraine 🇺🇦
There have been tweets reporting racism whilst trying to flee from war and cross Ukrainian boarders to the EU. Wtf??! Admission for all ❤️🩹
J. D. Salinger (1.1.1919 – 27.1.2010) wrote beautiful books 📚💛
Please, read “Franny & Zooey”. I loved how Salinger understands how to write about family dynamics and the complex bond between siblings. Also from Salinger: “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction” and “The Catcher in the Rye”.
The Indian activist and scientist Vandana Shiva (*5.11.1952) inspires humans to act pro planet 🌱 pro life ~
She talks about how we can learn from nature with its principles of diversity, cooperation and self-organisation to improve our decisions for each one and the community.
🐛🧔🏻♀️👩🏻🦰👶🏾🌱🧕🏼🧔🏿♂️👨🏻🦳🦋
"A book is not supposed to be a mirror, it's supposed to be a door" Fran Lebowitz (*27.10.1951) about the point of reading books. Check out the series on Netflix "Pretend It's a City" 📖
Mooji (*29.01.1954) is a Jamaican spiritual teacher inviting people to be conscious: "The universe (...) is coaxing us toward all experiences. (These) experiences are ushering us to our self-discovery, to become ourselves again."
Listen to the whole conversation with Mooji and Russell Brand on Youtube "Access The Awareness Beyond" 💛🙏😊
"If anybody wants to keep creating, they have to be about change." - Miles Davis (26.05.1926 - 28.09.1991). He was an American trumpeter and brilliant composer and had huge influence in the jazz history of the 20th century. Currently listening to his records whilst painting ✨
Tupac Amaru Shakur (16.06.1971-13.09.1996) about society’s function: “No independent person just grew up and was born independent. You worked, and you learned team work, (...) cooperation and unity and struggle, and then you became independent. We have to teach that and instill that. (...)
it need to be before we all die.”
Jaggi Vasudev aka Sadhguru (*03.09.1957), Indian yogi about letting go of toxic habits in your mind: “You think you are complicated because you like to be complicated. (Because)
If you're simple you feel like a fool!"
David Lynch (*20.01.1946) American filmmaker, painter, musician, philanthropist about creating “You do what you believe in, you translate those ideas and when they are finished, you say: Okay, it’s done! - And you don’t know how it will go in the world. It is the fantastic thrill of making them!” 💫
Found him talking on Spotify with Russell Brand, “# 80 Meditation & Genius”. Check it out
The American activist Janaya Future Khan standing up for the black international community and their rights: “Pain brought us together, but love will bring us back.” On the 3rd of November citizens in the USA will vote for a new president. Sending love and light to the minds and hearts voting ~
(Berlin, 08.10.2020)
Today in Berlin, we will be standing up for human rights, for non-violence and against racism.
Woke up with ‘Blowing in the wind’ by Bob Dylan in my mind: “How many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry?” (And I usually don’t listen to Bob Dylan) ⛰🕊
(Berlin, 06.06.2020)
Tilda Swinton (*05.11.1960, London) said: "The only thing we can rely on is change (...) if i am talking about a narrative, very often i am looking for (...) that feeling of people up rooting themselves and being challenged into change". 🥀🌹
Enjoyed very much the interview on Youtube "20 questions with Tilda Swinton and Gregory Crewdson"
Anthony de Mello (1931-1987): Awareness - Observe yourself. You only change what you understand. 🌊
German spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle (*16.02.1948) about Awakening: Use this precious time that is here because it is part of the awakening consciousness of humanity.🕊
Yoko Ono (*18.02.1933) „I’m so glad I’m still alive because there are so many things I’m learning.“
American singer and poet Patti Smith (*30.12.1946) “Why commit to art? (...) Picasso didn’t crawl in a shell when his beloved Basque country was bombed. He reacted by creating (...).” Quotation from the book Just Kids. Please read it 🌞🥵
Lovely quote from German artist Joseph Beuys (12.05.1921-23.01.1986): “All human knowledge comes from art”✨as to say art and creativity are the actual human capital 🗿
Marina Abramović (*30.11.1946): "Time stops exisiting in the presence. If you live in the moment there’s no past and no future."
"The elite kills the people" – Francia Márquez Mina (*01.12.1981) Colombia’s first Black vice president is being part of a big change in Latin American politics. She spreads hope and ambition for minorities who feel the motivation to bring changes in this patriarchal world. ❤️🔥
"I have a dream..." Martin Luther King Junior (15.01.1929 - 4.4.1968) American pastor and politician, had a dream to free black Americans. He risked his life to change a world full of inequality and full of fear of the unknown.
Thoughts go out to Ukraine 🇺🇦
There have been tweets reporting racism whilst trying to flee from war and cross Ukrainian boarders to the EU. Wtf??! Admission for all ❤️🩹
Toni Morrison (18.02.1931-5.08.2019) was an American writer and professor.
She started to write her first novel "The Bluest Eye" with 36.
She recalls in an interview that her deepest passion was at first reading and then finding herself writing the book she was longing to read, a story about "someone like her". Morrison had found a tool to free herself from the white gaze. 🌸🌸🌸
The Indian activist and scientist Vandana Shiva (*5.11.1952) inspires humans to act pro planet 🌱 pro life ~
She talks about how we can learn from nature with its principles of diversity, cooperation and self-organisation to improve our decisions for each one and the community.
🐛🧔🏻♀️👩🏻🦰👶🏾🌱🧕🏼🧔🏿♂️👨🏻🦳🦋
"A book is not supposed to be a mirror, it's supposed to be a door" Fran Lebowitz (*27.10.1951) about the point of reading books. Check out the series on Netflix "Pretend It's a City" 📖
Mooji (*29.01.1954) is a Jamaican spiritual teacher inviting people to be conscious: "The universe (...) is coaxing us toward all experiences. (These) experiences are ushering us to our self-discovery, to become ourselves again."
Listen to the whole conversation with Mooji and Russell Brand on Youtube "Access The Awareness Beyond" 💛🙏😊
"If anybody wants to keep creating, they have to be about change." - Miles Davis (26.05.1926 - 28.09.1991). He was an American trumpeter and brilliant composer and had huge influence in the jazz history of the 20th century. Currently listening to his records whilst painting ✨
Tupac Amaru Shakur (16.06.1971-13.09.1996) about society’s function: “No independent person just grew up and was born independent. You worked, and you learned team work, (...) cooperation and unity and struggle, and then you became independent. We have to teach that and instill that. (...)
it need to be before we all die.”
J. D. Salinger (1.1.1919 – 27.1.2010) wrote beautiful books 📚💛
Please, read “Franny & Zooey”. I loved how Salinger understands how to write about family dynamics and the complex bond between siblings. Also from Salinger: “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction” and “The Catcher in the Rye”.
David Lynch (*20.01.1946) American filmmaker, painter, musician, philanthropist about creating “You do what you believe in, you translate those ideas and when they are finished, you say: Okay, it’s done! - And you don’t know how it will go in the world. It is the fantastic thrill of making them!” 💫
Found him talking on Spotify with Russell Brand, “# 80 Meditation & Genius”. Check it out
The American activist Janaya Future Khan standing up for the black international community and their rights: “Pain brought us together, but love will bring us back.” On the 3rd of November citizens in the USA will vote for a new president. Sending love and light to the minds and hearts voting ~
(Berlin, 08.10.2020)
Today in Berlin, we will be standing up for human rights, for non-violence and against racism.
Woke up with ‘Blowing in the wind’ by Bob Dylan in my mind: “How many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry?” (And I usually don’t listen to Bob Dylan) ⛰🕊
(Berlin, 06.06.2020)
Tilda Swinton (*05.11.1960, London) said: "The only thing we can rely on is change (...) if i am talking about a narrative, very often i am looking for (...) that feeling of people up rooting themselves and being challenged into change". 🥀🌹
Enjoyed very much the interview on Youtube "20 questions with Tilda Swinton and Gregory Crewdson"
Agnès Varda (30.05.1928-28.03.2019) was a inspiring French film director. "I am a woman working with her intuition..."
She dedicated her life to document and comment on women's issues and rights.
Find one of her last interviews at the Gentlewoman magazine The Gentlewoman ✨
German spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle (*16.02.1948) about Awakening: Use this precious time that is here because it is part of the awakening consciousness of humanity.🕊
Yoko Ono (*18.02.1933) „I’m so glad I’m still alive because there are so many things I’m learning.“
American singer and poet Patti Smith (*30.12.1946) “Why commit to art? (...) Picasso didn’t crawl in a shell when his beloved Basque country was bombed. He reacted by creating (...).” Quotation from the book Just Kids. Please read it 🌞🥵
Lovely quote from German artist Joseph Beuys (12.05.1921-23.01.1986): “All human knowledge comes from art”✨as to say art and creativity are the actual human capital 🗿
Marina Abramović (*30.11.1946): "Time stops exisiting in the presence. If you live in the moment there’s no past and no future."
Jaggi Vasudev aka Sadhguru (*03.09.1957), Indian yogi about letting go of toxic habits in your mind: “You think you are complicated because you like to be complicated. (Because)
If you're simple you feel like a fool!"
Anthony de Mello (1931-1987): Awareness - Observe yourself. You only change what you understand. 🌊